Nitrogen Fixation in Crop Production

The only book of its kind to present the science, application, and politics of the use of nitrogen-fixing crop plants across the globe in various environments, Nitrogen Fixation in Crop Production is a problem-solving look forward to the next Green Revolution. The increased application of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in agriculture world-wide is but one aspect of the new revolution, but a critical one. As agricultural resources will be partitioned between the traditional food, feeds, and fiber and the newly emerging need for bioenergy, nitrogen fixation provides a means to meet the needs of a growing population with a nutritious, environmentally friendly, sustainable food supply. Readers will follow nitrogen fixation from the microscopic to the world scale in many contexts. From new ""omics"" approaches to the role of nitrogen fixation in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, from farming strategies in nonindustrialized nations to nitrogen fixation in the global economy, scientists will find the key issues and expanding research areas in nitrogen fixation, and how they contribute to the next wave of advancements related to agriculture and the environment.

• Format: Misc.
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089118192X
• ISBN13: 9780891181927
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Acsess